Kelly, whose real name is Robert, shouted, screamed and at times spoke directly to the camera while being interviewed by Gayle King for CBS News in an astonishing sit-down that aired on Wednesday. 

He said he had decided to speak out to clear up the ‘lies’ against him pending his next court appearance on child sex abuse charges. Kelly, 52, is facing 70 years imprisonment if convicted on the four counts he is accused of. Three of his four alleged victims were underage when he allegedly attacked them. The incidents happened between 1998 and 2010.

None are the women he now lives with. Their families’ turmoil was laid bare in a recent docu-series where their parents and others who have lived with the singer in the past described the cult-like environment he allegedly forces them to exist in.  

At one point in their interview, Kelly had to be restrained by his publicist and he cried several times. 

Kelly described Azriel Clary, 21, and Joycelyn Savage, 23, as his ‘girlfriends’ despite both women’s families claiming he brainwashed them after meeting them at concerts. 

Azriel was 17 when he pulled her onto the stage with him and Joycelyn was 19 and met him backstage at a different show with her mother. The women were interviewed separately in an emotional segment with King that will air on Friday. Neither has spoken to their parents for years. 

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Records obtained by DailyMail.com reveal that most of the counts he was charged with on Friday involved girls who were between the ages of 13 and 16 at the time. 

The fourth, who claims that she was assaulted by Kelly in 2003, was over the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offense. 

Kelly, 52, will appear in bond court on Saturday and then be formally charged on court on March 8 according to court records.

And on Friday afternoon, Chicago police were handed a no bail arrest warrant to bring in Kelly after a judge signed off on the order. 

Kelly has previously denied all allegations of assault and abuse through his lawyer, who was unaware of the charges against his client when contacted on Friday afternoon. 

Aggravated criminal sexual abuse is a Class 2 felony with a sentencing range of 3-7 years in prison. 

These new charges come one week after the emergence of a rape tape that allegedly features Kelly and a minor. 

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx spoke about the charges at a brief press conference on Friday. 

She briefly went through the charges related to each of the four victims, using only initials to identify the women. 

First was H.W., who was under the age of 17 between the dates of May 26, 1998 and May 25, 1999.

Kelly is charged with  four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for the alleged offenses involving that victim. 

Foxx had made a very public plea for accusers to come forward last month, and there could be more charges to come. 

This comes just one day after the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced that Jussie Smollett had been indicted by a grand jury on a single charge of disorderly conduct for falsifying a police report. 

The speed with which Smollett was indicted had led some to question why the State’s Attorney’s Office seemed to be taking their time with Kelly but rushing through the Smollett case.  

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